Iraqi scientists silenced (Iraq WMDs)

The Washington Times ^ | Published April 9, 2004 | Editorial

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In the year since Saddam Hussein was deposed, insurgents have killed nine former Iraqi weapons officials. All had been questioned by the Iraq Survey Group (ISG); at least two had been cooperating with it. Last October, ISG head David Kay said that one scientist was killed because "he was engaged in discussions with us." The most recent victim was Majid Hussein Ali, a well-known nuclear scientist. He took two bullets to the back in February.

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"...Mr. Deulfer said he was struck by the "extreme reluctance of Iraqi managers, scientists and engineers to speak freely."

Well duh! Something is hidden in Iraq and I don't see the people we have looking will find it.

A particularly scary point is that Mr. Deulfer is Dr. David Kay's successor.

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Pesticides, Precursors, and Petulance (Iraq’s WMDs)Related Info on thread

[Rocko]

Bump.

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[Diogenesis]

Need reason?

=========== Documents linking Atta, Saddam, Nidal, bin Ladin ===========

Handwritten letter dated Feb. 19, 1998 linking bin Laden and Saddam Hussein
discussing arrival of a secret envoy sent by bin Laden to Iraq.
The signature beneath the letter is a codename, "MDA" - the Mukhabarat.

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========= Chemical Warhead found in Kirkuk =============

Chemical warhead found at an Iraqi air base, marked with a green band,
the symbol for chemical weaponry. Trace amounts of a nerve agent were found
at two spots along the ~meter-long warhead. These amounts are consistent with
leakage from the chemically armed weapon. A 13-foot missile was found next to it.

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========= Halabja =========

Dead children, previously playing in Halabja
Victims of Saddams' WMD in March 1988.

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=========== French missiles FIRST given to Iraq to be USED Against US and Coalition Heroes =========

French missiles found by the Poles, and to protect France, blown up.

Froggies said they did not say "2003". LOL. Decide for yourself.

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Iraqi missiles given to, and now located in, Syria:

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========= RUSSIAN MISSILES AND DIRTY BOMBS FOUND IN IRAQ =========

Russian-made R-60, NATO AA-8 Aphid, air-to-air missiles were found..
The Russian-made missiles are >6 feet long. Each carries 3.5 pounds of uranium.
wrapped around a high explosive warhead (13.2-pound) making a "dirty bomb".

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Also found in Iraq:

* A clandestine network of laboratories and safehouses within the Iraqi Intelligence Service
that contained equipment subject to UN monitoring and suitable for continuing CBW research.

* A prison laboratory complex, possibly used in human testing of BW agents, that Iraqi officials
working to prepare for UN inspections were explicitly ordered not to declare to the UN.

* Reference strains of biological organisms concealed in a scientist's home,
one of which can be used to produce biological weapons.

* New research on BW-applicable agents, Brucella and Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF),
and continuing work on ricin and aflatoxin were not declared to the UN.

* Documents and equipment, hidden in scientists' homes, that would have been useful in
resuming uranium enrichment by centrifuge and electromagnetic isotope separation (EMIS).

* A line of UAVs not fully declared at an undeclared production facility and an admission
that they had tested one of their declared UAVs out to a range of 500 km, 350 km beyond the permissible limit.

* Continuing covert capability to manufacture fuel propellant useful only for prohibited SCUD variant missiles,
a capability that was maintained at least until the end of 2001 and that cooperating Iraqi scientists
have said they were told to conceal from the UN.

* Plans and advanced design work for new long-range missiles with ranges up to at least 1000 km -
well beyond the 150 km range limit imposed by the UN. Missiles of a 1000 km range would have allowed
Iraq to threaten targets through out the Middle East, including Ankara, Cairo, and Abu Dhabi.

* Clandestine attempts between late-1999 and 2002 to obtain from North Korea technology
related to 1,300 km range ballistic missiles --probably the No Dong -- 300 km range anti-ship cruise missiles,
and other prohibited military equipment.

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Still missing based on the UNSCOM report to the UN Security Council in January 1999,
when the UN inspectors left Iraq in 1998, they had been unable to account for:

• up to 360 tons of bulk chemical warfare agents, including 1.5 tons of VX nerve agent;

• up to 3,000 tons of precursor chemicals, including approximately 300 tons which,
in the Iraqi chemical warfare program, were unique to the production of VX;

• growth media procured for biological agent production (enough to produce
over three times the 8,500 litres of anthrax spores Iraq admitted to UN inspectors to having manufactured);

• over 30,000 special munitions for delivery of chemical and biological agents;

• 20 al-Hussein missles with a range of 650 km, in violation
of UN Security Council Resolution 687 (Iraq had told UNSCOM that it filled these warheads with anthrax and botulinum);

• 2,850 tons of mustard gas, 210 tons of tabun, and 795 tons of sarin and cyclosarin;

• development of the Al-Samoud short-range missle (which had the capability to fly beyond the 150 km allowed by UN resolutions)

[McGavin999]

We have GOT wot win this thing and we also have to protect these men somehow. I think they should announce that they have all produced written testiments that have been locked in a vault in Switzerland and should they die the bank managers have been instructed to turn those letters over to the US.

An old trick, but effective. Gives the thugs a reason to want to keep them alive.

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The Iraqi scientist ASIO chose to ignore (WMDs IRAQ)

The Iraqi scientist ASIO chose to ignore April 1, 2004 he Iraqi scientist ASIO chose to ignore said that hundreds of chemicals and chemical weapons, including missiles and artillery shells, had been secretly stockpiled to deal with internal dissent. "They were reserved for emergencies such as another Shiite uprising. They could have been moved after I escaped Iraq, I cannot say for sure, but I doubt that. These places took years to build." ...

Mr Young said he had subsequently forwarded to ASIO an approximate description of a storage site on an island in the Tigris River opposite Saddam University in the al-Jadriyah district, but withheld details of the other four sites. He said he heard nothing more.

A spokesman for Attorney-General Philip Ruddock confirmed yesterday that ASIO had not interviewed Rashid but had decided that the information supplied on the site in the Tigris River was not believable....

It might have helped if they followed up on this one, or explained why the Iraqis stored pesticide concentrates in camoflaged bunkers as were found as the coalition forces advanced.

[DHerion]

The assassinations of these WMD specialists tells me that several key figures in Saddam's inner circle are still very active in Iraq - no low level figures in Iraq would bother with these guys nor care if they talked or would even know who they are. There could also be a foreign factor in these attacks - Russian, French, Syrian intel, wanting to cover their nation's culpability.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Good observation. The ones with the dirtiest hands and the
most powerful of them have the most to lose.

[justshutupandtakeit]

More of this information should be revealed in August and September.

Expect a lively summer.

[smonk]

indexed for later

[Tennessean4Bush]

bttt

[risk]

Regardless of the means, coalition authorities must end the silencing of Iraqi scientists.

Uh no. The last thing we want is dubious talent trotting around in our own weapons labs. I'm not even interested in having these guys immigrate. We should do what we can to protect them in Iraq -- if they'll cooperate.

[hershey]

It won't matter if we find thirty thousand missiles filled with nerve gas or ebola/anthrax, even nuclear bombs buried under Fallujah, labeled with directions about how and where to hit the US. The anti-US media (including ours), will dismiss it as crop pesticide or something innocuous. France and Russia will never admit to supplying illegal weapons to Saddam, nor that they got cut rate oil. It's in old Europe's interest to make things hard for the US in the Middle East. They keep their large Muslim populations happy and hopefully, persuade terrorists to bomb elsewhere...possibly in the US. Then they can say that we had it coming.

[bayourod]

Saddam will talk. He's just waiting for October. He wants to be the October surprise.

[redhead]

"Still missing based on the UNSCOM report to the UN Security Council in January 1999, when the UN inspectors left Iraq in 1998, they had been unable to account for: • up to 360 tons of bulk chemical warfare agents, including 1.5 tons of VX nerve agent; • up to 3,000 tons of precursor chemicals, including approximately 300 tons which, in the Iraqi chemical warfare program, were unique to the production of VX; • growth media procured for biological agent production (enough to produce over three times the 8,500 litres of anthrax spores Iraq admitted to UN inspectors to having manufactured); • over 30,000 special munitions for delivery of chemical and biological agents; • 20 al-Hussein missles with a range of 650 km, in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 687 (Iraq had told UNSCOM that it filled these warheads with anthrax and botulinum); • 2,850 tons of mustard gas, 210 tons of tabun, and 795 tons of sarin and cyclosarin; • development of the Al-Samoud short-range missle (which had the capability to fly beyond the 150 km allowed by UN resolutions)"

Look on the bottom of the Arabian Gulf. Before the war began in earnest, several of Saddam's ships stood offshore for several days. Nobody mentions these ships any more, for some reason. BUT, WHAT WERE THEY DOING OUT THERE?

[Smartass]